In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hari Bhaskaran
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Is there way to backup the partition info somewhere? (may be a floppy?)
(At least for future installations?) I run vinum (mirrored across
two disks) on other machines (which I installed recently), but this
machine was installed way
Fortunately, the FreeBSD installer's disklabel program (the graphical
interactive one) was able to find the original partition information!
I assigned the mount points (I don't think that was necessary),
wrote ('W' from the screen) the label to disk again, it went thru
a series of fscks and all
Hi,
I seem to have lost the partition info of one of the harddisks.
Is there a backup copy of partition information stored
elsewhere in the disk?
The long story: -
Due to some hardware problem, one of the HDs stopped working.
(doesn't spin at all) After trying it on couple of machines,
I did
Hari Bhaskaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any chance? I only need a couple of files recovered.
Saving copies of the boot records and disklabels ain't a bad idea and
not hard to do. Just something more to do...
Anyway. Sounds like your MBR's partition table got messed up. If
you
